Section 42: Use of machines in canals
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42. Use of machines in canals
(1) Any person may establish a machine in the course of any canal, in
any place where it passes through his property, and may use the water of
the canal for working the machine unless by doing so he injures the canal, or
diminishes or defiles the water of the canal.
(2) (a) Any person whose land borders a canal shall, with consent of the
proprietor on the opposite bank, have the right specified in subsection (1).
(b) Where the other proprietor refuses, the machine and necessary
works may be erected on payment of an indemnity to be fixed by arbitration.
(3) The prior written consent of the syndic of the canal is necessary for
the establishment of a machine in a canal under this section.